Tuesday, September 29

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read.

Today in Language Arts, the students rehearsed reading for Readers’ Theater. They focused on voice projection and clarity.

In groups of four they worked on creating scripts out of one-page stories that they were given. They discussed among themselves the important characters, the parts of the story they wanted to keep, and the parts they wanted to discard. They created a script that they are going to perform for their classmates.

The students ended the day by working as a class to create a rubric for teamwork. They discussed what effective teamwork looks like, and what ineffective teamwork looks like. They created four main criteria, Cooperation, Participation, Support and Engagement. They then discussed the components that go into each criteria.